October 23, 2017
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Molinsky, A., Newfield J. (2017). How to gain credibility when you have little experience. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2017/10/how-to-gain-credibility-when-you-have-little-experience.
Article Summary
Credibility due to lack of experience is the reason why freshly graduate students are finding it hard to enter the workforce. Molinsky and Newfield asserted that:
Credibility paradox is indeed a core dilemma young people face as they enter the workforce. Getting a fast start will help you gain access to experiences and opportunities that will help you get noticed, be seen as a high potential. (2017, p.2)
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The only issue I have seen so far was these workers are not young professionals or youngsters; who just graduated from college and have something to prove. Triple J enthrall the enthusiasm of these young adults, whose age ranges from 18 to 25 years old to work for the company because of good benefits and the extensive training the company provided beneficial to them in the long haul. Experience is a lifetime achievement that can mean credibility in a chosen field especially with a certificate handy. At triple J, I guess diploma is not a factor in getting employed and acquire experience; credibility only applies to young professionals with a degree who have lot to prove not only to the employer but to themselves as well. Most Triple J’s employees do not have a college diploma but gainful skills and know how in fieldwork. In this field of employment credibility counts only if you mastered certain skills, which does not require a diploma or a college …show more content…
Molinsky in a professor in Organizational Behavior while Newfield is a consultant in the world’s largest enterprise leverage Big Data. Both are known authors in the business world providing insights how to become successful in the chosen field and foster experience leading to credibility. Their analysis of the dilemma of the freshly graduate young adults made me think about the true meaning of credibility applied to experience. The one that caught my attention was their quote “We’re looking for someone age 22-26 with 30 years of experience.” To me this message mean a lot of experience is required to be credible in any field and a degree is not enough to prove